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The thrill is gone and I’m all shook up, because the mountain (at least for now) seems high enough to keep me away. I’ve been tossin’ and turnin’, and now, this lady is singing the blues, ready to cry me a river from trying to keep up with the chain of fools twisting our rights away, both nationally and locally. Yeah, I know it’s all in the game, but sometimes, girls just wanna have fun.
Since I couldn’t sleep at all last night, I opted to listen to some of that ol’ time rock n’ roll and other good vibrations music, enjoying memories of dancin’ the night away. Then, half asleep I heard the crooning of Al Green, and I was on the road again, pondering what song would I choose for our leader of the pack (not PAC)!
Anyway, this is one I considered, do you have one?
OUR GUY
Nothing you could say could tear us away from our guy (Obama)
Nothing you could do, 'cause we're stuck like glue to our guy (Obama)
We're sticking with our guy like a stamp to a letter
Like birds of a feather, we stick together
We're tellin' you from the start
We can't be torn apart from our guy
Nothing GOP could do could make us untrue to our guy (Obama)
Nothing they could buy could make us tell a lie about our guy (Obama)
We gave our guy our word of honour to be faithful, and we're gonna
You best be believing we won't be deceiving our guy
As a matter of opinion we think he's tops
Our opinion is he's the cream of the crop
As a matter of taste, to be exact
He's our ideal, as a matter of fact
No muscle bound man could take our votes from our guy (Obama)
No other handsome face could ever take the place of our guy (Obama)
He may not be a movie star, but when it comes to bein' happy, we are
There's not anyone could take us away from Obama (our guy)
If this doesn’t do it for ya, and I’m sure the men at work here will have a different choice, so c’mon, it’s all in the game of political whimsy and as the GOP has proven, it’s time for some soul and inspiration, and let’s not lose that lovin’ feelin’ ‘cuz we need to stand by our man.)
(Yeah, I know …. But after goin’ rounds with my local politico’s and all the depressing, if not frightening, blather from the GOP’s four horsemen and cohorts, we’re all entitled to some silliness. Hope I haven't violated any copyright laws, but in my defense all's fair in love, war and politics it seems.)
By Aamer Madhani, USA Today, May 19, 2013
President Obama on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College, the country's pre-eminent historically black college, there is "no time for excuses" for this generation of African-American men and that it was time for their generation to step up professionally and in their personal lives.
[....] The president connected his own path to the White House to the work of King and other African-American leaders of that generation. But Obama also conceded that at times as a young man he wrongly blamed his own failings "as just another example of the world trying to keep a black man down."
"We've got no time for excuses — not because the bitter legacies...
Prompted by Peggy Noonan's claim in The Wall Street Journal that "we are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate," Andrew Sullivan steps forward to defend Pres. Obama's honor. "Can she actually believe this?," he asks incredulously.
By Julian Pecquet, The Hill, May 18, 2013
Congress is ramping up a new round of sanctions against Iran, ignoring the Obama administration's request to let diplomacy run its course.
In back-to-back hearings this week, lawmakers on key House and Senate panels put the State and Treasury departments on notice that their patience is wearing thin after the latest round of talks last month failed to produce a deal. Both chambers have legislative efforts in the works – the House foreign affairs panel will vote next week – but the administration is warning against any moves that could undermine international support for the existing sanctions against Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program [....]
By Carl Zimmer, New York Times/Science, May 16/17, 2013
An article that summarizes the recent work of Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines which is pointing to the theory that dogs domesticated themselves.
But the article's message is not just what it first appears to be. When you get to the concluding paragraphs there are some real though provokers:
[....] SLC6A4 may have played a crucial part in this change, because serotonin influences aggression.
To test these ideas,...
By Neha Paliwal, Passport @ ForeignPolicy.com, May 17, 2013
On Friday, chaotic clashes broke out in Georgia as an angry mob -- comprised mainly of young men but also including robed priests and some women -- descended on a gay rights rally commemorating International Day Against Homophobia. A day earlier, the head of the Georgian Orthodox Church had demanded that authorities stop the rally, calling it a "violation of the majority's right."
According to EurasiaNet, the mob, which numbered...